GOVERNOR’S PACKAGE – HTH (Department of Health)
Click on a bill number to list all drafts of the bill and bill status
HB No. |
SB No. |
Title |
Description |
Relating to School Health Requirements |
Permits the continuance of current practices in documentation of immunization and tuberculosis examinations. |
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Relating to Advance Health-Care Directives |
Allows individuals to designate on their driver's license or civil identification the existence of an advance health-care directive. |
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Relating to the Welfare of Incompetent Persons |
Expands the protection for the incompetent persons against injurious or potentially injurious conduct, and makes this type of conduct a Class C felony offense. |
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Relating to Prophylactics |
Eliminates the requirement for rules regulating the sale of prophylactics. |
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Relating to Prescription Drugs |
Liberalizes regulatory controls and restrictions on the distribution of medical oxygen and the dispensing of prescription drug (non-controlled substances drugs.) |
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Relating to Used Oil |
Clarifies public notice and hearing requirements for used oil permits. |
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Relating to Solid Waste Management Disposal Surcharge |
Increases the solid waste management disposal surcharge from 35 cents per ton to 60 cents per ton for all disposal facilities except permitted inert and construction & demolition waste disposal facilities. |
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Relating to Safe Drinking Water |
Increases potential fines to public water systems who violate drinking water requirements. |
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Relating to Safe Drinking Water |
Modifies the definition of a "water treatment plant" to allow for a distinction between certification requirement for water treatment plant and distribution system operators. |
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Relating to Air Pollution control Public Notification |
Clarifies public notice requirements. |
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Making an Emergency Appropriation for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation |
Appropriates emergency funds [$14,500,000] to Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. |
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Relating to Hawaii Health Systems Corporation |
Authorizes the issuance of hospital revenue bonds [$38,000,000] and includes a diagnostic and progressive care center adjacent to Maui Memorial Medical Center. |
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Relating to Hawaii Health Systems Corporation |
Allows more flexibility for the Corporation to design and provide patient care services. |
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Relating to Critical Access Hospitals |
Provides for the reimbursement to critical access hospitals on a cost basis under the Medicaid programs using matching federal funds. |
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Relating to Criminal Background Checks for the Department of Health |
Authorizes the collection of criminal history record information for prospective employees, service providers, and sub-contractors, who work in close proximity with clients when providing medical, mental health, or substance abuse services. |
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Relating to Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
Appropriates emergency funds for services provided by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division. |
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Making an Emergency Appropriation for the Adult Mental Health Division |
Appropriates emergency funds for services provided by the Adult Mental Health Division. |
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Relating to Motor Vehicles Tires |
Requires all entities accepting used tires to maintain records regarding disposition of the tires. Creates additional funds to support illegal dumping prevention programs. |
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Relating to the Environmental Response Revolving Fund |
Increases the tax on petroleum from five to twenty five cents per barrel. |
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Relating to Clean Air |
Authorizes the assessment of fees on air pollution sources to mitigate the impact of their emissions. |
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Relating to Community Water Fluoridation |
Requires the implementation of fluoride supplementation of public water systems with 1,000 or more service connections. |
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Making an Emergency Appropriation for the State's Medicaid Home and Community Based Services for the Developmentally Disabled or Mentally Retarded Program |
Appropriates emergency funds [$367,268] to meet program needs. |
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Relating to Therapy Services for Exceptional Children |
Transfers the responsibility of providing occupational and physical therapy services to children needing such services who attend public school. |
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Relating to Sanitation |
Repeal obsolete and unnecessary statutes. |
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Relating to the Environmental Health Education Fund |
Expands the use of the Environmental Health Education Fund. |
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Relating to Ammunition |
Prevents persons who illegally possess firearms from purchasing ammunition through the legal market. |
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Relating to Firearms |
Sets forth a systematic procedure for police to periodically check the status of firearm owners. |
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Relating to Solar Water Heating |
Modifies requirements for the installation of solar water heaters or heat pump electric water heaters for new single family residential homes. |
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Relating to Individual Wastewater Systems |
Delegates the responsibility of regulating wastewater systems to the counties. |
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Relating to Mental Health Parity |
Requires heath insurers to equitably reimburse providers for mental health treatment. |
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Relating to the Correction of Applicable Fiscal year for the Appropriation to be Expended by the Department of Health in Section 6 of Act 304, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999 |
Corrects the fiscal year reference in section 6 or Act 304, SLH 1999, to permit the appropriation of moneys from the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to the Department of Health for fiscal year 1999-2000. |